V-letter : and other poems

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Description: Very Good- in Good jacket. Clean and well bound text, with mild... Very Good- in Good jacket. Clean and well bound text, with mild aging to paper, light shelfwear. DJ in mylar wrapper; has some small chips and short tears to edges, price-clipped flap. Gift insc. in pen to front endpaper has been erased leaving minimal remaining signs.

Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardcover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. FIRST... Very Good. No Jacket. Hardcover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full beige cloth with black and red lettering on the front conver and the spine. Slight wear, no previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall a VERY GOOD book. Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913, Baltimore, Maryland – May 14, 2000, New York City) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Karl Shapiro wrote poetry in the Pacific Theater while he served there during World War II. His collection V-Letter and Other Poems, written while Shapiro was stationed in New Guinea, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1945, while Shapiro was still in the military. Shapiro was American Poet Laureate in 1946 and 1947. (At the time this title was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress which was changed by Congress in 1985 to Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. ) Poems from his earlier books display a mastery of formal verse with a modern sensibility that viewed such topics as automobiles, house flies, and drug stores as worthy of attention. Later work experimented with more open forms, beginning with The Bourgeois Poet (1964) and continuing with White-Haired Lover (1968). The influence of Walt Whitman, D. H. Lawrence, W. H. Auden and William Carlos Williams is evident in his work. Shapiro's interest in formal verse and prosody led to his writing a long poem about the subjects, Essay on Rime (1945); A Bibliography of Modern Prosody (1948); and, with Robert Beum, A Prosody Handbook (1965; reissued 2006). Selected Poems appeared in 1968, and Shapiro published one novel, Edsel (1971) and a three-part autobiography, "Poet" (1988-1990). Shapiro edited the prestigious magazine, Poetry (see Poetry Magazine) for several years, and he was a professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where he edited Prairie Schooner, and at the University of California, Davis, from which he retired in the mid-1980s. His other works include Person, Place and Thing (1942), To Abolish Children (1968), and The Old Horsefly (1993). Shapiro received the 1969 Bollingen Prize for Poetry, sharing the award that year with John Berryman. He died in New York City, aged 86, on May 14, 2000. More recent editions of his work include The Wild Card: Selected Poems Early and Late (1998) and Selected Poems (2003).

Description: Good; very slight wear to jacket, In dust jacket. 63pp. Good; very slight wear to jacket, In dust jacket. 63pp.

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